The European State of the Climate (ESOTC) 2022: Summary

The ESOTC 2022 report includes a snapshot of the global context during the year, a more comprehensive overview of conditions in Europe, and a focus on the Arctic. It provides a detailed analysis, with descriptions of climate conditions and events, and explores the associated variations in key climate variables from across all parts of the Earth system. The ESOTC 2022 relies largely on datasets provided operationally and in near real-time by the Copernicus Services, to give an overview of 2022 in the long-term context